Of course there's no doubt about Oleksandr Kostyljev aka S1mple as one of the best esports player in the world right now, precisely as the legendary of CS:GO game. Recently, S1mple also shared his key to success in the FPS game.

If many fans or CS:GO game lovers praise the performance of talents or commentators in "accompanying" them to watch the match, but S1mple thinks otherwise. According to him, many casters or analysts do not understand FPS games.

“I listen to English and Russian-speaking analysts and casters, and I came to the conclusion that they do not understand how Counter-Strike works at all,” s1mple said on his Telegram channel following the conclusion of BLAST Paris Major Europe RMR A.

“I’ve been playing for 10 years, and they did the same for 20 years or studied the game, and they still don’t know how FPS games work.”

S1mple explained that the real key to success in fps is not about skill or mechanical skills as many people think. According to him, the key to success in playing FPS games is to defeat opponents with our own minds.

“There are CS, VALORANT, and CoD: Warzone, and for me, they are more or less the same thing,” s1mple said on Telegram. “Not shooting-wise, as the game mechanics are always different, but understanding how a person thinks and makes a decision is fundamental to me. When you can outplay your opponent using your mind, this is the key to success of any FPS game. This is one of the tips to remember for the rest of your life: in any game, no matter which one, everything is decided by your brain.” he added.

S1mple himself is indeed one of the living legends in the competitive CS:GO scene, he has been part of the game since 2013 and has become one of the best CS:GO players in the world since joining NAVI in 2016.

Since then, the Ukrainian has been named the best player by specialized media HLTV in three different years, then the player of the decade by ESL, and also won various titles such as the PGL Stockholm Major in 2021.